I call to order this tenth meeting of the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying.
I welcome our guests, our witnesses.
What we have done in the last couple of meetings when we've had a teleconference is that we have chosen to go to the teleconference first, so we will hear first from Derryck Smith, the co-chair of the physicians advisory committee of Dying With Dignity.
You will have 10 minutes, Dr. Smith, and then we will go to Sharon Baxter and Carolyn Ells. Our process is to have that 30 minutes of input from our witnesses. Then committee members will be asking all of you questions and they may direct questions to any of you or all of you as they choose.
Dr. Smith, thank you for joining us. The floor is yours.